This section is from the book "The Dinner Year-Book", by Marion Harland. See also: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats - A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners.
Frugal Soup.
Calf's Liver a 1'Anglaise.
Spinach and Eggs.
Cucumber Pickles.
3 lbs. of bones. 1/2 1b. of liver, 1 slice of corned ham. 2 turnips.
2 carrots.
Nearly a can of tomatoes. 1/2 cup of sago. Pepper and salt. Sweet herbs.
3 quarts cold water.
Break the bones, chop the meat, vegetables, and herbs, and cook slowly three hours in the water. Soak the sago, all this time, in a little cold water. Strain the soup, rubbing the vegetables and liver through the colander; season, boil, and skim; put in the sago and cook half an hour more.
Calf's Liver 1 L'Anglaise.
2 lbs. liver - sliced.
1/2 lb. fat salt pork.
2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
1 small onion, minced fine.
1 teaspoonful chopped parsley.
Pepper and browned flour.
Melt, but not heat the butter in a saucepan; lay in the liver, then the pork, next the minced parsley and onion, with a little salt and pepper. Cover closely, and set where it will heat very slowly without boiling, for one hour and a half. Then increase the heat gradually until the gravy begins to bubble. Remove from the fire; cover the liver in a hot water dish, thicken the gravy in the saucepan and pour over it when it has boiled one minute. Please obey these directions implicitly.
2 cups cold mashed potato, free from lumps.
2 beaten eggs.
1 tablespoonful melted butter.
Salt and pepper to taste.
1 raw egg, beaten alone.
Mix soft, as for hominy croquettes, roll in egg and cracker, and fry in hot lard or dripping. You can make into long rolls, or round balls. Drain, and serve hot.
Pick the leaves from the stems; cook twenty minutes in plenty of boiling, salted water; drain, chop fine, return to the fire with butter, a little sugar, pepper, and salt. Beat until nearly dry, and very smooth; mould in a hot, oblong pan; turn out and garnish with sliced egg.
1 large cup bread-crumbs.
1 cocoanut, pared and grated.
1 tablespoonful corn-starch, wet with cold water.
1/2 cup of butter.
1 cup of sugar.
2 cups of milk.
5 eggs.
Nutmeg and rose-water to taste.
Soak the crumbs in the milk; cream butter and sugar, and beat in the yolks, then add to the soaked crumbs. Stir in corn-starch, beaten whites and flavoring - at last, cocoanut. Beat hard and bake forty-five minutes in a buttered pudding-dish. Eat cold.
 
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